Humans Quote by Francis Bacon

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision.…

— Bodhidharma

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us…

— Marvin Minsky

It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

— Krishna Das

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like…

— Margaret Cavendish

As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us…

— Matthew Carter

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented."…

— Marvin Minsky

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just…

— Frederick Lenz

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences…

— Charles Baudelaire

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is…

— Eckhart Tolle